vision zero: a road safety policy innovation
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By Matts-Åke Belin, Swedish Transport Administration. Presented at Transforming Transportation, Washington, D.C. January 27, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Matts-Åke Belin
Swedish
Transport
Vision Zero a road
safety policy
innovationTransforming
Transportation, Washington
on 27th of January
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VISION ZERO
• October 1997 the Swedish Parliament passed a new bill on Road Traffic Safety
• long-term goal no one should be killed or seriously injured as the result of an accident within the road transport system
• the design and functioning of the road transport system must be adapted to the requirements resulting from this ruling.
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Killed in Road traffic in Sweden, 1943 - 2010
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Different policies and strategies
Traditional approach Vision Zero approach
Accidents Injuries
Individual road user behavior The system is not designed according to human capability and human tolerance against external violence – in otherwords what the human body can stand.
Road user has primary responsibility
System designer has primary responsibility
Change individual road user behavior
Change the environment (road environment, vehicles, social environment)
Risk reduction Eliminate fatalities and serious injuries
Vision Zero – a road safety policy innovation DOI:10.1080/17457300.2011.635213
Matts-Åke Belin, Per Tillgren & Evert Vedung
Available online: 14 Dec 2011 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457300.2011.635213
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Probability of Pedestrian Fatality by Impact Speed
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 20092+1-road 180 450 680 950 1130 1300 1510 1770 1950 2120ATC 10 230 270 590 950 950 1900 2440 2700 2950
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• Vision Zero has moved our interest from the individual
road users to those who design the road transport
system.
• Those who design the road transport system are public
and private organizations.
• The questions are therefore what shape a organization
and its norms and behaviors and how is it possible to
influence these norms and behaviors in an effective
way?
Focus on implementation- and innovation
processes
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Problem and needs/challenges
Policy making
Business planning
Policy implementation
Commercialization
ResearchDiffusion and
Adoption
Road safety effects
External events
Socio-economic
structures
Road safety policy and innovation processes
in the society
Time
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